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Port forwarding or port mapping is a name given to the combined technique of translating the address and/or port number of a packet to a new destination, possibly accepting such packet(s) in a packet filter (firewall), or forwarding the packet according to the routing table.

If you have a local such as or you may need port forwarding settings on your network equipments such as router to make your server accessible from the Internet by knowing your network external IP or using any dynamic dns services such as dyndns.org. The following website, is regarded as an ultimate resource showing you how to apply port forwarding settings on your router. It is classified database for most routers available world wide:

http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm

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port forwarding in windows

I have two network board in my pc: The main one has the local ip -> 192.168.1.111 The secondary ones has the local ip -> 192.168.0.200 The main one has internet connection and the second one is connected to a device with the IP 192.168.0.33, it has…
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Virtualbox "port forward" from Guest to Host

Here is my setup: - Host: Windows XP - Guest: Ubuntu 10.04 - Networking: NAT I am setting an Apache web server on the Guest, but I want to be able to do this on the Windows machine: - go to the browser, type http://localhost:8000 Also, I tried to…
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ssh -L forward multiple ports

I'm currently running a bunch of: sudo ssh -L PORT:IP:PORT root@IP where IP is the target of a secured machine, and PORT represents the ports I'm forwarding. This is because I use a lot of applications which I cannot access without this forwarding.…
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Vagrant reverse port forwarding?

I'm working on a web services architecture. I've got some software that I need to run on the native host machine, not in Vagrant. But I'd like to run some client services on the guest. Vagrant's config.vm.forwarded_port parameter will open a port on…
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Vagrant's port forwarding not working

I'm running into a small problem at the end of the Getting Started guide for vagrant. I'm working on a CentOS basebox that has Apache2 running (provisioning via Puppet). I've set up port forwarding for web requests using the following line in…
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Access localhost from the internet

I need to forward my localhost for a short period of time for testing purposes. It has to be accessed from the public internet. How can I achieve this? Thanks.
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How kubectl port-forward works?

kubectl exposes commands that can be used to create a Service for an application and assigns an IP address to access it from internet. As far as I understand, to access any application within Kubernetes cluster there should be a Service resource…
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SSH -L connection successful, but localhost port forwarding not working "channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused"

My lab runs RStudio on a server. A couple weeks ago, from my cousin's house, I successfully ssh'd into the server and pulled up the server-side RStudio through my local Firefox browser. Now when I try to access the server RStudio from home (via my…
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Can I configure a subdomain to point to a specific port on my server

I have an old computer which I converted into a minecraft server. I have 2 minecraft servers running simultaneously, one on port 25565 (default) and one on port 25566. I bought the domain something.com and pointed it to my server. Right now, in…
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How can Vagrant forward multiple ports on the same machine?

I'm wondering how to setup a Vagrant file that will put up a machine with two ports forwarded. This is my current Vagrantfile, which is forwarding the 8080 page: Vagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.box = "precise32" config.vm.box_url =…
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How do I get netcat to accept connections from outside the LAN?

I'm using netcat as a backend to shovel data back and forth for a program I'm making. I tested my program on the local network, and once it worked I thought it would be a matter of simply forwarding a port from my router to have my program work over…
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Will html5 websockets be crippled by firewalls?

I'm extremely excited about html5's websockets spec but I have a concern. These days everyone is operating off of some network, with routers (wired/wireless) that have built in firewalls, windows has a built in firewall too. With that in mind when…
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How does Skype work without port forwarding?

I am designing a p2p application which works on port 30000. My router is not UPnP so I required to forward a port to router. But Skype a another p2p application works without port forwarding on my pc. When I analyzed it with wireshark I found its…
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PuTTY configuration equivalent to OpenSSH ProxyCommand

I'm just trying to use PuTTY to get an SSH connection to my servers. These servers allow incoming SSH connection only from another specific server ("MySshProxyingServer" in example below). Using Linux this is no problem with the ssh -W command. In…
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Connection Reset when port forwarding with Vagrant

I have Vagrant/VirtualBox running an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS OS. I have configured Vagrant to forward the guest port 8000 to my host port 8888. [default] Preparing network interfaces based on configuration... [default] Forwarding ports... [default] -- 22…
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